I used to hate asparagus, but turns out it’s because my mom and grandma would always boil it.
Pro-tip: don’t do that, it’s awful.
Yup, properly cooked veggies are awesome.
But, children’s taste buds are different from adults. Iirc they taste things more strongly, so the bitter notes are more pronounced.
Also, they’ve been breeding stuff like brussel sprouts to be less bitter for a while now, so veggies might actually taste better than when we were kids.
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I didn’t even think you could do that to asparagus. That’s seriously demonic.
Whoever invented canned asparagus belongs in extra hell
As well as spinach.
I actually liked canned spinach a lot as a kid, only vegetable I’d eat for a time. Still think it’s okay, but prefer fresh, raw spinach these days
Same with Brussel sprout. My step-dad would boil them. Tastes like a soggy sulfur fart. But cut them in half, toss them in a bit of oil, salt and pepper, roast them until crispy in the oven with, and they’re delicious. Oddly sweet, even. Try with other seasonings to enhance further.
Lightly drizzle some balsamic vinaigrette on them before the oven
You can also steam them (without the oil), fry them (with oil), or put them on a grill (oil optional)
Boiling is just not a good way to cook veggies, it’s just the lazy way
Actually it’s best to roast, then add the pepper. Roasting burns the pepper.
Yes. The crispy bits get caramelized. It’s amazing.
Blanche and shock are the only way I actually like asparagus.
I can tolerate a baked or sauteed spear, but the margin for error is too damned small, and either side of it makes it unpalatable.
I dunno about asparagus, but it turns out the Brussel sprouts we ate as kids were bitter and didn’t taste as good as the ones they sell now. But yeah, with asparagus, you gotta broil those bad boys with garlic/olive oil, etc
Blanche and shock.
I love steamed (not boiled) asparagus. Though for most of my life, vegetables were just a vehicle for butter and salt. I’ve pulled way back on how much I use in recent years.
My buddy makes the most delicious grilled asparagus. He’s a real pro and it’s a treat to bbq with him.
Yeah boiled here too. I liked it sorta but discovered much later that roasted is way better.
boiled (or steamed) white asparagus is quite good, but green asparagus, yeah you should absolutely roast that instead
Same thing with Brussels sprouts. Don’t boil. Toss in salt, pepper, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar, bake at like 425 for 20 minutes, you’re welcome
No! Salt kills you, cooking kills vitamins and when you think you do everything right, then your vegetables don’t have good enough quality and don’t have enough nutritients. Eating healthy means to suffer, deal with it!!! /s
Or just dont overcook/boil your veggies. Everything in moderation.
Some of us grew up with terrible cooks. Properly cooked broccoli was a religious experience for me.
My wife grew up with terrible cooks. So did I, but I learned to cook to make my own food, she resorted to microwaves, frozen pizzas, and 2 (in my opinion extremely bland but will never say because she was super happy to make it for me) dishes she figured out.
Since being with me, she has figured out she likes chicken, salmon and tilapia, medium steak, a few vegetables, and quite a few other things. Her parents UNDERCOOKED chicken and seafood, made steak into charcoal or still bloody with no in between which made her not trust any pink, and they boiled the everloving shit out of every vegetable until peas were mush and broccoli looked like it was rotting.
They also never had real mayonnaise, and she only ever had miracle whip and thought she hated mayo.
And tea was always super weak and filled with sugar, so she never had real tea until she tried mine one day and went “I thought you said this was tea?”
Total speculation: I think the reason so many of our parents suck at cooking is because they didn’t learn before having kids, and when it came time to either spend shitloads on carryout or figure out cooking, they just remembered the basic ingredients from their own childhood, but we’re never around for the spices or cook times. And since internet wasn’t really a “I need a recipe, let me google that on my phone real quick” until much later, it was that or find a cookbook with all your favorite recipes.
That’s depressing, glad you saved her.
I always snort cocaine with moderation.
Kills some of them, but guess what happens when you enjoy it, and therefore eat a lot of them?
Breathing KILLS you! 100% of people who breathe die, so stop breathing RIGHT NOW to live a healthy life!
My mom after feeding me canned green beans for years watching me wolf down green beans at my house
“You hated veggies when you were a kid.”
…sure, mom
I looked my mother in the eyes after a long day once and responded to a similar statement with “No, I hated your chilli when I was a kid.”
She really does make the absolute worst chilli I’ve ever tasted. It’s so bland. There is almost no chilli powder in it, just some salt and a little bit of pre-ground pepper from a packaged salt/pepper shaker. The recipe amounts to “throw some hamburger and tomato sauce with canned beans in a pot and cook it for an hour and then add random amounts of all THREE seasonings”
It’s a wonder I survived to be able to cook on my own.
Was the chili really that bad you had to hurt your mother’s feelings about it? I feel you hated more than just her chili…
My kids are the opposite. We can sauté up some fresh green beans and make them so good, but the kids only want to eat the canned ones.
Lol there’s just something so fun about the canned ones when you’re a kid I guess
“Oh my God!”
Who is God’s God?
Super God, duh
Dog
Lauren Faust
Her holy icon:
She holds doll of her human avatar:
Her human avatar holding doll of her:
just be an actual paedophile and get it over with
WTF is this? What’s wrong with you?
It’s commonly accepted by most people that don’t watch My Little Pony, that the grown ass men that do watch MLP, and always hyper obsess over it, may be subtly indicating that they are into other children’s things.
your idolisation of children’s pony cartoons is a flimsy front for your attraction to children. castrate yourself
Wouldn’t it be more logical to suggest that idolisation of a children’s pony show is more of a front for a furry? Or is it because the show is created for children, if an adult likes it they’re a pedophile?
I always assumed MLP fans were closer to furries. The show is about horses, not kids?
Why are you expecting logic from someone as hateful and moronic as the person you’re responding to?
Furries want to be their fursona and usually also fuck in them (not with them).
While bronies have jars with their favourite pony, which they masturbate over to fill the jar with semen.
Nobody wants you here, and I suspect nobody else has ever wanted you anywhere else either. Please spill back into the sewers with the rest of the waste.
God.
The infinite regress of creator’s creators.
The author.
I
“Oh my God!” - God
I think God is, by definition, an atheist, though, since God must not believe in a higher power.
I feel like God would have the capacity to realize he is the higher power. Nothing says there has to be a higher power at each level.
Nothing says there has to be a higher power at each level.
Sounds like you’re just about ready to join /c/atheism
Well in that case I’m not atheist. I belong to species of higher power on this planet.
im an atheist and i believe in a higher power.
that sun will fuck me up if i get too close
Depends on if he’s having a bad day, or if he believes in himself. Wait, is that why faith is how you get into heaven? God having shitty self-confidence and not wanting any haters around makes as much sense as any other I’ve heard.
who’s the creator of god and the realm he resides in? hm? hm? hm?
checkmate, theists!
Checkmate? Ha!
Those fools aren’t but throwing rocks at a wall, hoping one sticks!
The real reason is that unhealthy food contains ingredients that were rarer for our ancestors to obtain. Dense caloric food meant surviving a winter, but our winter never comes.
but our winter never comes
Sad George R. R. Martin noises
sad season 7 noises
uncanny mr incredible season 8 noises
I’m lazy so here’s lazy delicious veggie tip:
Get a rice cooker. Get rice and FROZEN pre-processed (chopped) veggies. These are still very inexpensive, require no preparation, last forever in the freezer, and are actually FRESHER than “fresh” veggies, since they are picked when ripe and then flash frozen rather than picked prematurely and sprayed with a ripening agent. Your rice cooker should come with a veggie tray so you can cook the rice and veggies simultaneously. Drop them in there and fire it up. Get yourself some “simmering sauce” and heat it up in a pan for ~15 minutes and baby you got a stew goin’.
Can you elaborate on where the stew is going?
Can you elaborate on this so called simmerin’ sauce please
It’s just like a pre-mixed (typically middle-Eastern) sauce with coconut milk and spices and thing like that pre-prepared. It shouldn’t have any preservatives or anything you can’t pronounce.
Any packet sauce mix like curry or gravy’ll work too
I’ve also heard you can cook a chicken breast on top of the bed of rice
and are actually FRESHER than “fresh” veggies
As an adult who thought that they hated pretty much all veggies (especially broccoli and corn) and found out that I absolutely love them when prepared fresh and that the bagged versions tasted like ass, I’m gonna call bullshit on that.
It might work for you, but nothing beats freshly-prepared corn, whether grilled in the husks or cut and sauteed.
You can call bullshit on whatever you want but it’s a scientific fact.
Veggy tray? Do you mean the steam “table”?
Sure, let’s go with that.
Oh, god’s one of those assholes.
Why not link the actual artist’s website so they can get some revenue? Plus, there’s usually a hidden panel for his comics.
OK, I will link the artist’s website. I usually provide source link to where I found the comic.
Why didn’t you?
Is itthis
That link goes to a parking page, as in the domain is just held by a broker waiting to sell it. You missed the first n in lovenstein.
Here’s a direct link to the strip shown.
Thanks for the correction. Evidently, I need some new glasses.
Correction: Why is tasty unhealthy food so much easier than tasty healthy food?
From what I understand, it’s that foods containing lots of fats, sugars, salt etc aren’t normally unhealthy, out in the wild. When you’re worried about not starving, foods with energy storage substances like sugar are a good thing, and the amount you’ll get in some wild fruit or something isn’t bad. Salt is an essential thing to get enough of, and overabundance of it in food isn’t common. So, rather than evolve some ability to know exactly what substances we need and only want to eat food with those exact things, we have the evolutionary shortcut of “sweet things are good, fatty things are good, salty things are usually good, etc”. Our biology hasn’t really evolved to for the possibility of us farming stuff that contains sugar on an industrial scale, extracting and concentrating that sugar, and then putting unnaturally large concentrations of it in everything.
That is my understanding as well. But that wouldn’t work in the context of the joke, where god just designed everything.
Tasty unhealthy foods are also way tastier than even the tastiest veggie dish.
That is only true in the meat addicted West.
Go to India and get yourself some nice authentic curry.
Have you tried eating those unhealthy food raw/unseasoned? With enough butter/sugar anything will taste like heaven
Adding enough butter, sugar, salt, etc is easy, and makes it unhealthy. Making it taste good without lots of butter, sugar, salt is hard.
That’s kind of my entire point
https://mrlovenstein.com/comic/1155
Here’s a direct link to the artist’s page.
Finally, a comic by Mr Lovenstein with positive message!
Vegetables taste bad?
My brother in Christ, you’re addicted to junk food
And you like to jump to conclusions quickly. Let’s both be judgemental together!
Hell yeah, that’s the basis of all my friendships.
Tell me stuff you hate, I’ll enable your hatred.
Depends on the veggies. I’m very sensitive to bitters, so Asparagus to me tastes awful no matter how it is cooked. Same with arugula and some other leafy greens. But beans, broccoli, carrots all taste nice and I eat a lot of those.
Cuddle fish and asparagus…or vanilla paste?
Yes
Okay, I’ll eat both…just as soon as apple and/or amazon sews your lips to my anus. Maybe I’ll stack some fiberone bars on top of it so that I fart for a few hours before the shit comes out.
Frying anything makes it taste better. Deep frying makes almost anything edible delicious.
